UPDATED: Documentation of MFAH fine-art graffiti tag could be better

UPDATE: MFAH spokeswoman Mary Haus says museum security did find a panel adhered to a wall with sticky tape in a passthrough alcove in the Law Building’s Cullinan Hall where no art usually hangs — contrary to the press release’s claim that Benote managed to “hammer his work onto the museums (sic) curated walls without notice” — so it sounds like Benote’s execution was as feeble as his concept. That would explain the lousy installation shots; there was no installation to shoot. As Sean Carroll writes in the comments, Banksy did it better.

ORIGINAL ENTRY: Just got a press release saying that conceptual artist Mat Benote, “a leader in the merging world of fine art and graffiti,” was able to hang one of his own artworks on curated wall space at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston over the weekend.

The artist has been carrying out this act that he calls Fine Art Graffiti in museums throughout the country including the Guggenheim in New York. And his goal? To challenge better-known artists to donate their own art to public institutions and to show that, when applied properly, graffiti can be used to directly the community.

Unfortunately, these are the installation shots the release provided by way of documentation:

Kind of difficult to evaluate the release’s claims, isn’t it? Slightly better documentation of previous stealth gifts here. I’m waiting to hear back from the MFAH about whether, and how successfully, this really went down, but for now my message to Benote is one I usually have to give to galleries and museums: Images. Get me decent images.